LIVE THREAD: Dan Rather's Last Broadcasts

www.freerepublic.com | March 9, 2005 | Free Republic

[Howlin]

Dan Rather enters the CBS broadcast center for his last scheduled broadcast of the 'CBS Evening News' March 9, 2005 in New York. Tributes to the 73-year-old newsman were mixed with sniping after his final months were marred by a reporting scandal that tarnished his reputation. REUTERS/Chip East

[nutmeg]

Goldberg on Hannity!

Yes, watching now...

Also on H&C: Mel Gibson (or at least Sean's radio interview with him earlier today) and Paula Jones.

[Mo1]

DANG .. did I miss it??

I was doing my taxes and lost track of time

[nutmeg]

Nice screen shot! :-D

[tgslTakoma]

In my email box this evening...

Dan Rather's own words, put to music.

[nutmeg]

Bernie (and most of the country) incredulous that the source of these forged documents still has not been named.

[pulaskibush]

Hannity reminding us that Dan is still going to be on TV.

[NautiNurse]

LOL--the Dan Rather Prozac Rap

[drwiii]

This one was my favorite.. Hidden message?

[Peach]

We just got home a while ago and missed the pathos of Dan's long goodbye. I should have set the VCR :-)

[foreverfree]

bump

[Miss Marple]

Bernie thinks we should look at Rather's entire 40 years. Rather just showed what he considered his highlight moments.

I hold Rather in MORE contempt after watching this special. He is PROUD of what he did. Yuk!

Bernie is mystified about why no one has subpoenaed anyone about where the documents originated. Doesn't puzzle me....the democrats don't want to go there and President Bush doesn't want to attack the media, because he doesn't want to get in a fight with the media when we are trying to win a war.

[Howlin]

You missed NOTHING, believe me.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Someone put a lot of time into that. IT will be a classic.

[nutmeg]

Zelig and I are ROTFL over that Dan Blather "rap"! Listened to about half of it... will pick up the rest next commercial. Thanks for sending it. ;-D

[Howlin]

Okay........what article is he talking about???

[infidel29]

I missed much too, but I was working on something else.

Some new career paths for the old dinosaur.

[NautiNurse]

Summary:

Dan was born, had rheumatic fever, VietNam, Kennedy died, Nixon-Watergate, Jimmy Carter, Iran-Contra, 9-11-2001.

[nutmeg]

Check out tgslTakoma's link in #784. Hysterical!

[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

King of Queens is on now. In NYC Metro, weren't re-runs of the King of Queens beating Dan in the ratings shortly after Rathergate broke?

[Miss Marple]

Sory, I must have missed the comment on the article. I got a phone call.